An unforgettable encounter with the living legend of the Soviet space program was held at the NTUU"KPI" on May 13. The cosmonaut Georgy Grechko visited Kiev Polytechnic Institute. He participated in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, three times flew into space.
April 12, 1961 Soviet citizen Yuri Gagarin on the spaceship "Vostok" for the first time in human history has made space flight. The news of this event immediately spread through the entire planet.
Names of Kyiv aircraft designers Volodymyr Grigoriev and Fyodor Tereshchenko are surrounded by an aura of mystery.
Not a few so called family “duets” left their mark in the development of science and technology. Monuments are erected in their memory; their portraits are printed on the pages of school textbooks; books are written about them as well as films are shot.
In March 1960 Pavel Popovich, together with Yuri Gagarin was enrolled in the first group of cosmonauts. I think their paths similarity is not accidental. Each of them after receiving specialty - whether in school or in college - could stop, start a measured life.
The first attempts to construct a plane belonging to the nineteenth century. Thus, in 1882 the Russian engineer Olexander Mozhajskij built an aeronautical machine that is not able to rise into the air because of the large mass of the steam-engine, which served as the engine.
Celebrations to mark the 45th anniversary of the exit of the first man in the open space, and the 35th anniversary of the joint flight program "Soyuz-Apollo" took place in NTUU "KPI" on March 30. Among the guests there were A.A.
The full title of the book "The Starry Messenger, signaling the great and amazing spectacles and offers for consideration to everyone, especially the philosophers and astronomers,what is that Galileo Galilei, Florentine patrician, State mathematician of Padua High School, watched using a telescop
There is in the Department of Aviation and Space Museum at the State Polytechnic "KPI", which presents samples of model aviation and space technology, the exhibit, which seems to get here by accident. This is - a big (one and a half meters in diameter) globe of the Moon.
In early 2008, Ukraine almost did not notice the 125-year anniversary of one of its most famous aircraft designers of the first half of the twentieth century, Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, who was born, educated and formed as the creator of aviation in Kiev. His life was full of ups and downs.
